Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.